Software Engineer 1
New Relic · Posted Oct 21
Cloud-based application performance monitoring, telemetry analytics, and intelligent observability services
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About the role
New Relic builds an intelligent observability platform that gives companies insight into their complex systems, and this role sits within its product engineering organization. The team works across a unified platform spanning responsive React user interfaces and core data processing backends built on Java and Python, with a focus on AI-native engineering around custom instrumentation agents and the Model Context Protocol ecosystem. The Full Stack Software Engineer will design, build, and scale features end to end, from UI and dashboards to backend services, data modeling, and production deployments.
What you will do
- End-to-End Ownership: Feature delivery from UI wireframes to backend implementation, database migrations, and production deployments.
- UI/UX Development: Build, maintain, and optimize elegant, data-dense web experiences and custom charts/dashboards using React, JavaScript, and HTML.
- Scalable Backend Services: Write high-quality, production-ready backend logic utilizing Java (Spring Boot) and Python for processing heavy telemetry workloads.
- Database Management: Model data for high-throughput, low-latency systems across structured SQL and unstructured NoSQL databases.
- DevOps & Observability Culture: Actively leverage New Relic’s own platform to monitor app health, troubleshoot production latency, and improve system reliability.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience: 3 + years of professional software engineering experience in a collaborative, agile team environment.
- Front End Craftsmanship: Strong proficiency in React, vanilla JavaScript, and HTML. Solid understanding of state management and modern CSS.
- Backend Skills: Deep hands-on experience in Java (JVM tuning and microservices framework experience preferred) combined with professional exposure to Python for scripts, data pipelines, or web services.
- Database Proficiency: Solid understanding of data modeling, schema design, and query optimization (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis).
- Software Hygiene: Strong mastery of Git workflows, unit/integration testing (e.g., JUnit, Jest, PyTest), and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Preferred qualifications
- Telemetry & Agent Development: Experience writing or customizing monitoring agents, eBPF probes, or open-source collection daemons (like OpenTelemetry).
- AI Tools & MCP Servers: Experience developing or connecting to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, creating developer tools, or designing custom AI agent integrations to enhance engineering productivity.
- Distributed Systems: Familiarity with high-throughput messaging structures like Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis.
Benefits and support
- Flexible workforce model allowing fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work
About New Relic
New Relic is an intelligent observability company that provides a cloud-based platform for monitoring, debugging, and optimizing software applications and infrastructure. Its platform helps developers, engineers, and enterprise leaders track real-time telemetry data to reduce system downtime and accelerate incident resolution. Formerly a publicly traded company, New Relic was acquired by private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG in late 2023.
- Industry
- SaaS
- Company size
- 2500-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2008
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Equity-Backed
Funding
Private Equity-Backed · $6.88B raised
- 2023-11-09Private Equity Buyout$6.5B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Product Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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